Friday, March 18, 2011

I consider her this blog's sweetheart, since she was one of the first artists I talked about back in the faraway year of 2009. She was the Lounge's 8th post, when the blog was taking its first timid but confident steps. Now, two years and 451 posts later, I come back to let your ears peek into another window of Ive Mendes' soothing music, due to the release of her new double-album, Magnetism. Thus, the Brazilian Sade takes over my brain with her alluring brand of intimate bossa nova and smooth jazz, where her voice shines through no matter what language she sings in, for the next 45 minutes, about the time it takes to play Magnetism's first CD without skipping a single song, because you don't really have to. Among this album's highlights are its first three songs: Yellow, the more than well known Eu Sei Que Vou Te Amar, and I Don't Want to Talk About It. Yellow is my favorite.

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Caipirinha Lounge is all about music in Portuguese or by Lusophone artists. It's born out of a sincere belief that Lusophone music should reach a much larger audience. The lounge features music from Brazil, Angola, Portugal, Guine-Bissau, Cabo Verde, São Tomé & Principe, Mozambique, Galicia, and even Timor-Leste. Occasionally, there will be posts about singers so good that the fact that they do not sing in Portuguese is momentarily overlooked.

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